Laser Lethality & Vulnerability Analysis Engineer

Job description

Overview Laser Lethality & Vulnerability Analysis Engineer (DETO-2026-24874): Bowhead seeks a Laser Lethality & Vulnerability Analysis Engineer to support the Navy’s Weapons Systems Munitions Integration and Hypersonic division. Join a mission‑driven team at the forefront of modern weapon system assessment. Responsibilities: This role places you directly in the analytical engine room of laser lethality and survivability studies—where physics, engineering, and real‑world threat understanding converge. You won’t just model systems; you’ll help decode how weapons achieve kill, how targets respond, and what drives true operational effectiveness. Job duties to include but are not limited to: - Analyze how High Energy Laser weapons can defeat other weapon systems with analytical and high-fidelity models of material, subsystem and full up system response. - Analyze weapon engagement kill mechanisms to understand how energy deposition, material response, and subsystem interactions drive mission‑level effects. - Analyze the effects and logic of failures to understand system vulnerabilities and predict failure mechanisms. - Characterize weapon system vulnerabilities. - Model weapon system ge...